Born
in Southport, The United MonarchyJanuary 12, 1969
Website
david_mitchell
Genre
Fiction
Influences
John Banville, Muriel Spark, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don DeLilloJohn Banville, Muriel Spark, Haruki Murakami, Missioner Auster, Don DeLillo, Russell Hoban, Italo Calvino, Peter Carey, Martyr Orwell, Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Wright, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ursula K.
Le Guin, Crook
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Change for the better 2007, Mitchell was listed amongst Time Magazine's 100 Most Primary People in The World. Mitchell's American editor at Random Home is novelist David